AMD executives can’t really get a break, even when the company is doing well. Normally when execs start flogging off their shares it is because the company is going to announce something unpopular which will send share prices downwards. However, in AMD’s case they did the opposite.

They flogged their shares just before good news sent the stock up about 30 percent.

CEO Lisa Su, CFO Devinder Kumar, and five other top executives sold over two million shares of AMD this month, mostly at prices under $7. Shortly after almost all the sales, on November 15, the company announced a new cloud computing partnership with Google and the shares shot up to a high of $9.22.

To be fair though, they wouldn’t have benefited much if they had waited. The sales mostly followed even larger stock awards under AMD’s executive compensation programmes. The sales were made to cover taxes owed on the vesting of the stock awards. If they had waited, the only one to benefit would have been the taxman.

On 2 November, CEO Su received over 1.5 million shares that vested as the first part of a multi-year performance stock unit programme. She sold 665,414 shares two days later to cover tax withholding obligations. CFO Kumar got 515,102 shares via the performance plan and sold 312,469 to cover tax obligations, according to a filing.

Jim Anderson, who oversees the computing and graphics business unit, sold shares after 15 November . But that’s because his performance stock award did not vest until then. He sold over the next two days as the share prices rose rapidly. Again though the sales were to cover tax obligations, according to the SEC.

AMD shares have been doing well since February, when they were a miserable $1.83. Analysts had expected sales would continue shrinking in 2016, but AMD has posted $3.2 billion of net sales in the first nine months of the year, up four per cent, including a 23 per cent jump in the most recent quarter.

Estonia National Museum has adopted EIH-developed 32-inch e-paper for visitor guiding signage as well as 6.8- and 9.7-inch e-paper for displays showing information of exhibited items, with the displays allowing visitors to choose languages based on NFC and RFID technologies.

There is some more stuff coming too. EIH has been showing off a 32-inch flexible full-colour display featuring integration of EIH-developed e-paper.

In a slap in the face for Brexit, British mobile phone outfit Vodafone reported a better-than-expected 4.3 percent rise in core earnings in the first half of the year, helped by improving trading in big European markets like Germany and Italy.

The world's second biggest mobile operator reported earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization of 7.9 billion euros, beating a 7.8 billion euro consensus forecast. Service revenue was up 2.4 percent in the second-quarter, unexpectedly ahead of the 2.2 percent recorded in the first quarter and ahead of what analysts thought.

Vodafone slightly lowered the top of its range for full-year earnings to 15.7 to 16.1 billion euro. The top limit was previously 16.2 billion euro.

Chief Executive Vittorio Colao said the improvement in Europe was "modestly ahead" of expectations, led by Germany and Italy, and the group had executed its strategy well in emerging markets, although competition in India had increased.

"We expect to sustain our underlying performance in the second half of the year and remain on track to meet our full-year objectives despite macroeconomic uncertainties," he said.

As we predicted, the GPU maker named after a Roman vengence daemon, Nvidia, has produced a really good set of results with a record revenue of $2 billion, up 54 percent from a year ago.

That's up from $1.30 billion a year earlier, and up 40 percent from $1.43 billion in the previous quarter.

GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.83, up 89 percent from $0.44 a year ago and up 102 percent from $0.41 in the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.94, up 104 percent from $0.46 a year earlier and up 77 percent from $0.53 in the previous quarter.

Nvidia supreme dalek Jen-Hsun Huang said that it was a break-out quarter with record revenue, record margins and record earnings were driven by strength across all product lines.

"Our new Pascal GPUs are fully ramped and enjoying great success in gaming, VR, self-driving cars and datacenter AI computing. "We have invested years of work and billions of dollars to advance deep learning. Our GPU deep learning platform runs every AI framework, and is available in cloud services from Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Alibaba, and in servers from every OEM. GPU deep learning has sparked a wave of innovations that will usher in the next era of computing," he said.

During the first nine months of fiscal 2017, NVIDIA paid $509 million in share repurchases and $185 million in cash dividends. As a result, the company has returned an aggregate of $694 million to shareholders in the first nine months of the fiscal year. The company intends to return $1.0 billion to shareholders in fiscal 2017.

For fiscal 2018, NVIDIA intends to return $1.25 billion to shareholders through ongoing quarterly cash dividends and share repurchases. The company's board of directors has authorized an additional $2.00 billion under the company's stock repurchase program for a total of $2.96 billion available through the end of December 2020.

The company announced a 22 percent increase in its quarterly cash dividend to $0.14 per share from $0.115 per share, to be paid with its next quarterly cash dividend on December 19, 2016, to all shareholders of record on November 28, 2016.

GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $572 million. Non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $500 million.

GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 are both expected to be 20 percent, plus or minus one percent.

Capital expenditures are expected to be approximately $45 million to $55 million.

Nvidia said that its mighty bottom line was helped by the news that its gaming technology will power the Nintendo Switch home gaming system and it expanded its line of Pascal GPUs with GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti,. It also Introduced GeForce GTX 1080, 1070 and 1060 for notebooks.

In the Datacenter, it expanded the GPU Technology Conference with a world tour of eight cities that broadened its reach this year to 18,000 developers, researchers, scientists and others. It was further helped by launching Tesla P40 and P4 GPUs, and the TensorRT deep learning inferencing framework. These expand NVIDIA's deep learning platform to speed up AI inferencing production workloads in hyperscale datacenters, Nvidia said.

The outfit began shipping the DGX-1 AI supercomputer to research organizations, including OpenAI, Germany's DFKI and Switzerland's ITSIA; to universities, including Stanford, New York University and UC Berkeley; and to multinationals, such as SAP.Announced a collaboration with Japan's FANUC to implement AI to increase robotics productivity and bring new capabilities to automated factories.

In the car industry Nvidia released its DRIVE PX 2 platform will power a new AutoPilot system in all of Tesla Motors' factory produced vehicles - the Model S, Model X and upcoming Model 3. It also unveiled its next-generation Tegra processor, codenamed Xavier, an AI supercomputer on a chip for self-driving cars. This quarter saw the announced partnership with Baidu to develop a self-driving, artificially intelligent car and mapping system and an AI partnership with Europe's TomTom to create a cloud-to-car mapping system for self-driving cars using NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2.

The GPU maker named after a Roman vengeance daemon, Nvidia, is set to announce a rather positive set of results today.

Looking at the hints we have been given, it looks likely that expanding the Pascal portfolio has been the best thing that the outfit has done and helped the GPU maker keep its growth momentum.

Pascal has been actively used by Nvidia to extend its leadership across its key growth markets: Gaming, Professional Visualization, Datacenter Acceleration and Automotive Electronics.

Money expected for the Nintendo NX switch which will finally put Nvidia in the console market. It also won a key contract with Tesla Motors to equip the latter’s cars for self-driving features. According to SEC filings this is what Wall Street is expecting from Nvidia tonight.

The outfit is better known for its beat-em-up game GTA which gives psycho kids the chance to raise the standards of the universe by playing a crack whore who beats up random people walking down the street while screaming “what the f*ck” repeatedly.

Take-Two has been doing well thanks to a shift to the high-margin digital business, where players download games rather than buy physical game disks. Its net revenue rose to $479.4 million from $364.9 million in the second quarter ended 30 September. Wall Street analysts expected $402.6 million so they are probably screaming “what the f*ck” repeatedly now too.

Take-Two forecast current-quarter revenue of $675 million to $725 million, compared with the average analyst estimate of $649.7 million.

It was not all good news, the company's net income fell to $36.4 million, or 39 cents per share, from $54.7 million, a year earlier Take-Two said selling and marketing expenses jumped 46.1 percent in the quarter.

The company confirmed earlier this month that it would release a new "Red Dead" videogame in the second-half of 2017, after teasing the return of the Western action-adventure series on social media.

The new "Red Dead" game will be released by Take-Two's Rockstar Games studio, best known for creating the popular "Grand Theft Auto" franchise.

Sony Mobile has lowered the target of its smartphone shipments for fiscal 2016,to 17 million units from its previous forecast of 19 million units in July.

According to a release from the parent company, Sony the problem is mid-range smartphones which are not selling as well and a reduction in smartphone sales in unprofitable regions.

Affected by the downward adjustment, sales of Sony's mobile communications products will total $7.51 billion in fiscal 2016 well down on last year. However the outfit said that it has not given up hope as it still has a a target of generating a total of $48,409,300 in profits from its mobile communication business. Apparently it will do this by focusing on high-end smartphones.

Sony Mobile shipped 3.5 million smartphones in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 (July-September 2016), down from 6.7 million units of a year ago but up from 3.1 million units of a quarter earlier.

Troubled phone maker LG has seen its third quarter operating profit fall 3.7 percent from a year earlier.

Once again, its bottom line is being dragged down by a record quarterly loss for its mobile division. The outfit said in a regulatory filing its July-September profit was $248 million which was pretty much the misery it predicted earlier this year. Revenue for the quarter dropped 5.7 percent.

LG's mobile division reported its worst-ever quarterly operating loss of $382.17 million, its sixth straight quarter in the red, offsetting a record $334.21 million profit for the telly division.

LG said its fourth quarter profit would be weaker than the third quarter's due to higher promotional expenses and weaker earnings for its appliances business due to seasonal weakness.

The company is a bit of a tragedy because it makes rather good mobile products but for some reason can’t get a lucky break. Its TV business is doing well too.

After years languishing under the reign of its shy and retiring CEO Steve “there is a kind of hush” Ballmer, it seems that Microsoft is back in a role of global dominance, thanks to it actually betting on cloud technology reasonably early.

Vole announced its results which were so good that it broke past a level hit in 1999 at the peak of the tech stock bubble. This was while its traditional bread and butter, Windows OS, is suffering from the fact that PC sales are lower than a limbo dancing flat worm.

What gave Microsoft its edge was the fact that sales of its flagship cloud product doubled in its first quarter, propelling earnings above analysts' estimates.

This means that since Ballmer headed off to shout at basketball teams, Microsoft’s shares have doubled under Chief Executive Satya Nadella. And while we miss Steve for shear entertainment value, it seems that the less interesting Nadella is far better for Microsoft.

Under his rule, Microsoft has shifted focus to the cloud and its rather good Azure product. The fact it got into it early means that it is in a good position to take on the main rival – Amazon.

Microsoft said that sales from its flagship cloud product Azure, which businesses can use to host their websites, apps or data, rose 116 percent. Revenue for its broader "Intelligent Cloud" business rose 8.3 percent to $6.38 billion, beating analysts' average estimate of $6.27 billion.

Nadella told analysts that Microsoft was not just building or moving clients' IT. Customers "are building new digital services for hyper scale. And that's what is probably unique in terms of what has changed year over year for us.”

"It's not just the Silicon Valley start-ups anymore; it is the core enterprise that is also becoming a digital company. And we are well-positioned to serve them," he said.

The company forecast that sales for its Intelligent Cloud business will be between $6.55 billion and $6.75 billion in the current quarter, compared with $6.34 billion in the same period a year earlier.

The only shadow on Volish fortune has been the dips in sales for other units of the company in the quarter. Revenue in the unit that includes Windows software and the company's struggling mobile business fell 1.8 percent to $9.29 billion.

Microsoft forecast the division will have sales of up to $11.6 billion in the current quarter - well below the $12.7 billion it posted for the unit a year earlier.On an adjusted basis, Microsoft reported revenue of $22.33 billion, above the average estimate of $21.71 billion.

Chipzilla has surprised the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street by reporting a better-than-expected quarterly earnings and revenue.

The results suggest that things were better due to increased PC demand and growth in Intel's data center and cloud businesses. However Wall Street was a little disappointed with Chipzilla's revenue forecast for the current quarter and have rated the results "seven out of ten must try harder".

As a result Intel's shares were down 5.3 percent at $35.75 in after-hours trading yesterday.

Intel said it expects fourth-quarter revenue of $15.7 billion, plus or minus $500 million. Analysts on average were expecting $15.86 billion.

Executive Vice President Stacy Smith said on a conference call with analysts that this figure was below the average seasonal increase for the fourth quarter as Intel is expecting the worldwide PC supply chain to reduce their inventory.

Last month, Intel raised its third-quarter revenue forecast for the first time in more than two years, citing improving PC demand.

Revenue from the data center business, rose 9.7 percent to $4.54 billion in the third quarter, from a year earlier. Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich said on the call that revenue growth from this unit for the full year will likely be in the high single digits, as demand for cloud-based services has been growing as more businesses shift to cloud-computing methods.

Intel, which has been hurt due to weak PC demand, said last month it was seeing signs of improvement among PC parts suppliers.

Revenue from the company's traditional PC business, which still accounts for over half of Intel's total revenue, rose 4.5 percent to $8.89 billion.